Citation: Hughes, Kew Bull. 1923:310 (1923).

Synonymy: -Panicum ctenanthum F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:153 (1874).

Common name: Comb finger-grass.

Description:
Annual or less often perennial, with erect or geniculate culms 100-500 cm high; leaf blades flat, often undulate along the margins, linear, pubescent or glabrous, 3-11 cm long, 2-5 mm broad; ligule obtuse or jagged.

Racemes often paired rarely in 3's, erect-spreading, 3-8 cm long, bearing spikelets to their base; spikelets usually in pairs, 3.6-5.5 mm long, lanceolate; the shorter pedicel c. 1-1.5 mm long, the other 3-4 mm long; first glume 0-0.8 mm long, truncate to acute; second glume shorter than the spikelet, silky-hairy; first (sterile) lemma 7-9-nerved, the nerves separated only by slits, almost glabrous; the first lemma of the pedicellate spikelets usually with a row of long stiff hairs along their margins, the first lemma of the shortly pedicellate spikelets usually without long stiff hairs; second (fertile) lemma as long as the spikelet.

Published illustration: Lazarides (1970) The grasses of Central Australia, pl. 30.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mostly Jan. — May.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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